Language of Beauty in African Art
ISBN: HB: 9780300260045,
Yale University Press,
March 2022
368 pp., 32,3x22,9 cm, 315 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
368 pp., 32,3x22,9 cm, 315 colour illus., 30 black&white illus.
Displacing Western values in scholarship and museum interpretation over the past century through an exploration of traditional African artworks and aesthetic vocabularies.
This ambitious publication centers indigenous perspectives on traditional art...
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50.00 GBP
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Ancient DNA
The Making of a Celebrity Science
ISBN: HB: 9780300240122,
Yale University Press,
February 2022
280 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
280 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm, 3 black&white illus.
Ancient DNA research – the recovery of genetic material from long-dead organisms – is a discipline that developed from science fiction into a reality between the 1980s and today. Drawing on scientific, historical, and archival material, as well as or...
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30.00 GBP
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Underworld
Imagining the Afterlife in Ancient South Italian Vase Painting
ISBN: HB: 9781606067345,
Getty Publications,
January 2022
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
240 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, illus.
What happens to us when we die? What might the afterlife look like? For the ancient Greeks, the dead lived on, overseen by Hades in the Underworld. We read of famous sinners, such as Sisyphus, forever rolling his rock, and the fierce guard dog Kerber...
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60.00 GBP
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Maya Universe in Stone
ISBN: HB: 9781606067444,
Getty Publications,
November 2021
192 pp., 25,4x21,6 cm, illus.
192 pp., 25,4x21,6 cm, illus.
In 1950, Dana Lamb, an explorer of some notoriety, stumbled on a Maya ruin in the tropical forests of northern Guatemala. Lamb failed to record the location of the site he called Laxtunich, turning his find into the mystery at the center of this book...
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45.00 GBP
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Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Engravers, 1714-1820
ISBN: HB: 9781913107215,
Yale University Press,
November 2021
1120 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
1120 pp., 23,5x15,6 cm
This biographical dictionary of engravers working on copper encompasses both those who produced fine art prints, and also those who engraved book illustrations for medical, technical and literary works, all of which played a more important part than...
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75.00 GBP
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Social Constellations and Settlement Practice
The Archaeology of Non-Urban Complexity in Southeastern Burkina Faso
ISBN: PB: 9780913516324,
Yale University Press,
June 2021
320 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 82 black&white illus.
320 pp., 24,8x17,1 cm, 82 black&white illus.
This volume explores the relationships among political strategies, economic practices, and land use in a region inhabited by precolonial West African Gulmance kingdoms. It proposes that variability in farming practices and landscape use was driven by...
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20.00 GBP
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Cuzco
Incas, Spaniards, and the Making of a Colonial City
ISBN: HB: 9780300218114,
Yale University Press,
June 2020
200 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 94 illus.
200 pp., 26,7x21,6 cm, 94 illus.
Through objects, buildings, and colonial texts, this book tells the story of how Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire, was transformed into a Spanish colonial city. When Spaniards invaded and conquered Peru in the 16th century, they installed in Cuz...
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47.50 GBP
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Perspectives on Early Andean Civilization in Peru
Interaction, Authority, and Socioeconomic Organization during the First and Second Millennia B.C.
ISBN: PB: 9780913516300,
Yale University Press,
February 2020
192 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 121 black&white illus.
192 pp., 24,7x17,1 cm, 121 black&white illus.
This Yale University Publications in Anthropology volume presents investigations of Peruvian archaeological sites, focusing on early developments in coastal, highland, and cloud forest environments. The contributors provide new perspectives on early...
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25.00 GBP
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Sahel
Art and Empires on the Shores of the Sahara
ISBN: HB: 9781588396877,
Yale University Press,
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
January 2020
288 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 300 colour illus.
288 pp., 27,9x22,8 cm, 300 colour illus.
This groundbreaking volume examines the extraordinary artistic and cultural traditions of the African region known as the Sahel ("shore" in Arabic), a vast area on the southern edge of the Sahara Desert that includes present-day Senegal, Mauritania,...
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50.00 GBP
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Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, Fascicule 10
Athenian Red, Figured Column and Volute Kraters
ISBN: HB: 9781606066010,
Getty Publications,
November 2019
162 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
162 pp., 25,0x15,0 cm
Cataloging some hundred thousand examples of ancient Greek painted pottery held in collections around the world, the authoritative "Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum" (Corpus of Ancient Vases) is the oldest research project of the Union Academique Internatio...
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100.00 GBP
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